[ANTIPHONAL.]

Very large historiated initial ‘H’,...

Italy (Siena), c. 1300.

A very fine large initial painted in...

£6750

[ANTIPHONAL.]

Antiphonal, with neumes, containing music...

Southern Germany or Bohemia, mid-fifteenth...

An unusual and striking antiphonal leaf...

£4250

ANTIPHONAL,

with neumes, containing antiphons, responses...

Germany, 1st half of 12th century. 

Two bifolia from a notably early antiphonal. 

£5000

BEDFORDSHIRE – ARLESEY.

Charter of William Hoye of Arlesey (‘Auricheseya’)...

Bedfordshire, 1st half of 13th century.

Witnessed by Roger Burnard, William Rixpaud,...

£1400

BIBLE,

...

Germany or perhaps Switzerland, mid-12th...

From a folio Romanesque Bible, this...

£3750

BOOK OF HOURS,

in Latin, from the Hours of the Virgin...

Flanders or northern France, early 14th...

An exquisite leaf from an exceptionally...

£2250

BORSO D’ESTE, Duke of Modena, Duke of Ferrara.

Letter in his name in Italian, addressed...

Modena, 3 July 1453.

A letter from early in Borso d’Este’s...

£750

[CHOIRBOOK.]

Large historiated initial ‘I’.

Italy (Umbria), c. 1300.

A very elegant initial in a style characteristic...

£4500

CORRADO III TRINCI, Lord of Foligno.

Letter in his name in Italian to Cipriano,...

Foligno, 9 February, no year but c. 1430s.

The family of the Trinci ruled over Foligno,...

£600

DE CICON, Marguerite. 

Manuscript regarding the seigneurial rights...

Montureux-lès-Baulay, France, 1627. 

A remarkably detailed manuscript, and...

£4750

[FIREFIGHTING.]

Verneuerte Feuer-Ordnung / Eines edlen...

Nuremberg, Michael Endter, 1656.

Scarce expanded edition of this guide...

£3500

[GRADUAL.]

Vast historiated initial ‘A’ cut from...

Italy (Umbria), end of thirteenth century.

A spectacular initial on the scale of...

£20000

HICKES, George, Runólfur JÓNSSON, and Edward BERNARD.

Institutiones grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae...

Oxford, ‘e theatro Sheldoniano … typis...

First edition of a foundational work...

£1200

ITALY – PIEVE DI SAN MINIATO DI RUBBIANA.

Petition to Pope Clement VII, in Latin,...

The petition explains that the parish of...

£250

JOHN OF FREIBURG.

Summa confessorum [and] Tractatus de instructione...

France, mid-fourteenth century.

From a large and well-decorated manuscript...

£1500

LA SALLE, Jean-Baptiste, Saint. 

Les règles de la bienséance et de la...

Rheims, Le Batard [– Barbier], 1808. 

Rare edition of La Salle’s pedagogical...

£750

MASTER B.F.

Three very large historiated initials cut...

Italy (Lodi), early sixteenth century.

Three extremely fine initials by the...

£150000

[MISSAL.]

Missal, in Latin, with readings for the...

Southern Netherlands or northern France...

A remnant of what must have been an...

£3250

SARUM BREVIARY,

in Latin.

England, 1st quarter of 15th century.

A fragment of 21 leaves from a portable...

£4250

SPENCER, Eleanor P. 

The Sobieski Hours: A Manuscript in the...

London, [Rampant Lion Press for] Academic...

Limited edition, dedicated and presented...

£475